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The Son of the Sheik is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Fitzmaurice released in USA on 5 september 1926 with Rudolph Valentino

The Son of the Sheik (1926)

The Son of the Sheik
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Released in USA 5 september 1926
Length 1h8
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Action,    Adventure,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2963453.2963453.2963453.2963453.296345

The Son of the Sheik is a 1926 American silent adventure/drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky. The film is based on the 1925 romance novel of the same name by Edith Maude Hull, and is a sequel to the 1921 hit film The Sheik which also stars Rudolph Valentino. The Son of the Sheik is Valentino's final film and was released nearly two weeks after his death from peritonitis at the age of 31.

In 2003, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Synopsis

Ahmed, the adult son of Sheik Ahmed (Valentino played both roles) is just as impetuous as his father once was. At the beginning of the movie, he is wooing the dancing girl Yasmin (Banky), who is exploited and overworked by her renegade French father. During one of their trysts at a moonlit ruins, Ahmed is kidnapped and later tortured by Yasmin's father and his cronies, who hope to receive a large ransom from Ahmed's father. Ahmed is rescued by his loyal servant Ramadan. Having been misled into believing that Yasmin was the one who set up his capture, Ahmed kidnaps her in turn and imprisons her in his tent. It is heavily implied that she is then raped, but the scene fades out before anything of consequence happens, and the exact details are left to the viewers' imagination. Ahmed's father, angered at his son's long absence from home, arrives and insists that he free Yasmin. When a remorseful Ahmed learns that Yasmin actually wasn't involved in his kidnapping, he sets off to free her from her father (who is trying to force her to marry one of his henchmen). All is forgiven, and the movie ends with Yasmin and Ahmed reunited, presumably to wed and live happily ever after.

Actors

Rudolph Valentino

(Ahmed, the Sheik's Son / Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan)Vilma Bánky

(Yasmin)Montagu Love

(Ghabah)Karl Dane

(Ramadan)George Fawcett

(André Romez)
And :
Agnes Ayres
Bull Montana
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